Best Landscape Books
Here you will get Best Landscape Books For you.This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
1. Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
Author: by Paul Stamets
Ten Speed Press
English
614 pages
A detailed and comprehensive guide for growing and using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms commercially or at home. Absolutely the best book in the world on how to grow diverse and delicious mushrooms. David Arora, author of Mushrooms Demystified With precise growth parameters for thirty-one mushroom species, this bible of mushroom cultivation includes gardening tips, state-of-the-art production techniques, realistic advice for laboratory and growing room construction, tasty mushroom recipes, and an invaluable troubleshooting guide.
More than 500 photographs, illustrations, and charts clearly identify each stage of cultivation, and a twenty-four-page color insert spotlights the intense beauty of various mushroom species. Whether you’re an ecologist, a chef, a forager, a pharmacologist, a commercial grower, or a home gardenerthis indispensable handbook will get you started, help your garden succeed, and make your mycological landscapes the envy of the neighborhood.
2. Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates: Plants for a Lush, Water-Conscious Landscape
Author: by Nora Harlow
English
308 pages
1604699124
Dry summer, wet winter climate? This is your must have plant guide. Selecting plants suited to your climate is the first step toward a thriving, largely self-sustaining garden that connects with and supports the natural world. With gentle and compelling text and stunning photographs of plants in garden settings, Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates by Nora Harlow and Saxon Holt is a guide to native and climate-adapted plants for summer-dry, winter-wet climates of North America’s Pacific coast.
Knowing what these climates share and how and why they differ, you can choose to make gardens that maintain and expand local and regional biodiversity, take little from the earth that is not returned, and welcome and accommodate the presence of wildlife.
With global warming, it is now even more critical that we garden in tune with climate.
3. Encyclopedia of Landscape Design: Planning, Building, and Planting Your Perfect Outdoor Space
Author: by DK
DK
English
392 pages
Plant the garden of your dreams and transform your outdoor space with award-winning Royal Horticultural Society garden design experts. Whether you’re looking to revive a tired flowerbed or simply looking for new garden ideas, the Encyclopedia of Landscape Design will show you how to make your ideal garden a reality.
Even if you’re new to gardening, you can grasp the fundamentals of garden design, find a style that suits you, and bring your ideas to life. This design bible is packed with advice to guide you from planning to planting.
From preparation such as choosing the correct materials for your structures and assessing your drainage, to laying patios, making ponds, and planting perennials, this book is with you every step of the way. Discover inspirational portfolios including modernist, sustainable, Japanese, urban, family, and cottage gardens.
Understand the unique features of each garden style, create your own plan, and marvel at case studies showcasing the gold standard of each garden type. With a handy visual dictionary and coverage of all the latest gardening trends, this book combines style with substance to guide you as you plant your perfect outdoor space.
4. The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends
Author: by Scott Shrader
Rizzoli
English
240 pages
For anyone who wants to live well in their garden, here is a guide to creating stylish and livable outdoor spaces-for entertaining, playing, and relaxing. Pools made private by lush plantings, bedrooms open to the back yard, bar seating by the outdoor oven.
California native and exterior architect Scott Shrader is known for creating covetable outdoor rooms for clients including Ellen DeGeneres and Patrick Dempsey. In his first book, he shares the grounds of twelve beautiful properties, all designed to be lived in and enjoyed as extensions of the homes they surround, rich with creature comforts.
Shrader shows us how to connect the landscape outside with interior decor; resulting in an exterior environment that flows naturally, stylishly and serenely from this core. He also inspires us to think of the way these outdoor spaces will be used, and plan ahead for ways to keep our family and guests fed, warm, and entertained in them.
Folded in between the featured gardens-which range in style from Hollywood Regency to Modern Moroccan-are meditative essays on topics including Sustainability, Lifestyle, and Pathways, as Shrader reflects on the ways that gardens change constantly in small ways, shifting mood with the light and the weather, transforming dramatically with the cycle of the seasons and the passage of years.
5. Lawn Gone!: Low-Maintenance, Sustainable, Attractive Alternatives for Your Yard
Author: by Pam Penick
Ten Speed Press
English
192 pages
A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today’s busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Homeowners spend billions of hoursand dollarswatering, mowing, and maintaining their lawns.
You don’t have to be one of them. Free yourself with Lawn Gone!, a colorful, accessible guide to the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, low-water, money-saving options. It includes: alternative grasses that seldom (or never) need mowing drought-tolerant, eco-friendly landscapes regional plant recommendations for all parts of the country artificial turf that looks like the real thing step-by-step lawn-removal methods strategies for dealing with neighbors and HOAs ways to minimize your lawn if you’re not ready to go all the way Whether you’re a beginner or expert gardener, green thumb or black, Lawn Gone!
Provides realistic choices, achievable plans, and simple instructions for renovating your yard from start to finish.
6. The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage
Author: by David L. Culp
Timber Press
English
312 pages
Gardenmaking, in its finest form, is a celebration of life and of love. David and his book epitomize this. Lauren Springer Ogden Brandywine Cottage is David Culp’s beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layeringinterplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over.
The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend of Asian wildflowers at the onset of winter. The Layered Garden shows you how to recreate Culp’s majestic display.
It starts with a basic lesson in layeringhow to choose the correct plants by understanding how they grow and change throughout the seasons, how to design a layered garden, and how to maintain it. To illustrate how layering works, Culp takes you on a personal tour through each part of his celebrated garden: the woodland garden, the perennial border, the kitchen garden, the shrubbery, and the walled garden.
7. National Wildlife Federation(R): Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife, Expanded Second Edition (Creative Homeowner) 17 Projects & Step-by-Step Instructions to Give Back to Nature
Author: by David Mizejewski
Design Originals
English
176 pages
Make your backyard more nature-friendly by providing habitats for the local wildlife! From the National Wildlife Federation, the largest U.S. Nonprofit conservation organization, with 6 million members and 51 state and territorial affiliated organizations 17 step-by-step projects that everyone can do together make getting your family back to nature easy, educational, and fun Over 200 color photos of backyard wildlife habitats and the wide variety of creatures they attract, plus step-by-step photos and illustrations for family projects Learn wildlife-friendly practices for gardening, landscape design, supplemental feeders, birdbaths, nesting places, and more Learn how to attract backyard pollinators, from bees and butterflies to beetles, bats, and hummingbirds Get your garden certified by the National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife(TM) program by following the included certification application checklist Your backyard can come alive by creating an environment with plants and spaces that attract nature’s most interesting and friendly creatures!
8. The Kinfolk Garden: How to Live with Nature
Author: by John Burns
ISBN: 978-1579659844
Published at: Artisan (October 27, 2020)
In this gorgeous, aspirational work, Burns, editor-in-chief of Kinfolk magazine, collects stories about nature as nourishment’ along with photographs from homes across the globe to inspire people to bring more nature into their own abodes…. Expertly evoking a mood of understated luxury, this stunning spread will have design junkies drooling.
Publishers Weekly A gardener with a secret oasis on a Parisian rooftop. An artist making faux flowers to brighten Manhattan apartments. A family of ranchers rewilding the American outback. Anchored around the idea of nature as nourishment, The Kinfolk Garden explores lush gardens and plantfilled homes around the world and introduces the inspiring people who coax them into bloom.
Through visits to friends old and new, the Kinfolk team learns the secrets to a good garden, and what good a garden can do for our self-care, creativity and communities. Though many of the people we meet along the way champion the idea of following natural instincts rather than a set of prescriptive garden rules, there are practical tips throughout the book that offer advice on everything from growing your own produce to foraging for artful arrangements to simply keeping your houseplants alive a little longer than usual.
9. Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start (Rodale Garden Book)
Author: by C. Colston Burrell
Rodale Books
English
384 pages
Perennial Combinations by C. Colston Burrell features plant medleys that bring color, texture, and excitement to the garden in every season. The book features 130 of the best perennial combinations with photographs of each grouping, along with a numbered photo key and plant list.
Each grouping features just two to six plants; gardeners can plant the combinations as they appear for small garden spaces or they can repeat or mix the combinations for large beds and landscapes. Available for the first time in paperback, with a new chapter of plant combinations featuring today’s big, dramatic perennials, backyard gardeners will find the best choices to accent wide open spaces, marry slopes and high foundations, and make an impact on the landscape with impressive and showy plants.
From tall plumes to bold foliage, many of these plant combinations create a living privacy screen and offer a bounty of bloom for those looking to make an “architectural” statement in their perennial beds. Plant cultivar names have been updated throughout the book so gardeners can choose perennials that are readily available at local nurseries.
10. New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden
Author: by Kelly D. Norris
English
208 pages
0760368198
In New Naturalism, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecologically sound vision for home gardens created with stylish yet naturalistic plantings that mimic the wild spaces we covet, such as meadows, prairies, woodlands, and streamsidesfar from the contrived, formal, high-maintenance plantings of the past.
Through a basic introduction to plant biology and ecology, you’ll learn how to design and grow a lush, thriving home garden by harnessing the power of plant layers and palettes defined by nature, not humans. The next generation of home landscapes don’t consist of plants in a row, pruned to perfection and reliant on pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides to survive.
Instead, today’s stunning landscapes convey nature’s inherent beauty. These gardens are imbued with romance and emotion, yet they have so much more to offer than their gorgeous aesthetics. Naturalistic garden designs, such as those featured in this groundbreaking new book, contribute to positive environmental change by increasing biodiversity, providing a refuge for wildlife, and reconnecting humans to nature.
11. Planting the Natural Garden
Author: by Piet Oudolf
Timber Press
English
288 pages
If the world of gardening has rock stars, Piet Oudolf qualifies as Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Prince rolled into one. Gardenista The original publication of Planting the Natural Garden ushered in a revolution in landscape design: the New Perennial Movement.
Spearheaded by internationally renowned designer Piet Oudolf, and incisively articulated by the late plantsman and designer Henk Gerritsen, it transformed private and public spaces with its emotionally resonant, naturalistic use of hardy perennials and grasses. Now this classic has been expanded and updated to include scores of new plants and combinations.
Packed with practical information and visual inspiration, Planting the Natural Garden zeroes in on the New Perennial Movement’s power to move us, making its distinctive plant palette available to all. For enthusiasts of these vibrant landscapes, it is an essential text; for gardeners who love the dreamy moods and colors that Oudolf and Gerritsen celebrate, it’s the key to a magic kingdom of garden beauty.
12. English Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life Magazine
Author: by Kathryn Bradley-Hole
Rizzoli (October 1, 2019)
English
492 pages
This is the definitive and most authoritative book ever published on the glories of English gardening-historically and horticulturally, a tour de force. An unprecedented in-depth look at the English garden by one of Britain’s foremost garden writers and authorities, this book showcases the enduring appeal of the English garden whose verdant lawns and borders of colorful plants are the inspiration for garden lovers worldwide.
Kathryn Bradley-Hole-the longtime garden columnist for Country Life-takes a fresh look at more than seventy gardens from across England and distills the essence of what makes the English garden style so sought after. Seasonal photographs capture the gardens-some grand, some personal, some celebrated, some rarely photographed-at their finest moments, accompanied by sparkling, insightful text.
Featuring photographs from the unparalleled archives of Country Life, the full story of the English garden is here, from medieval monastery gardens to the Victorians and the Arts and Crafts movement to the twenty-first century. Designs by many of the horticultural world’s greats are amply featured, including Gertrude Jekyll, Capability Brown, Piet Oudolf, and Arne Maynard, as well as gardens famous the world over-Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and Great Dixter-alongside new and less-well-known ones, many open to the public.
13. The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
Author: by Rick Darke
Timber Press
English
392 pages
This thoughtful, intelligent book is all about connectivity, addressing a natural world in which we are the primary influence. The New York Times Books Review Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife, but they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch.
Sure, it’s a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. You’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscapeone that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife.
Richly illustrated and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.
14. Garden Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your Home: Designing, Constructing, Planting (Creative Homeowner) Step-by-Step Sequences & Over 400 Photos to Landscape Your Garden with Water, Plants, & Fish
Author: by Editors of Creative Homeowner
Design Originals
English
256 pages
All the inspiration and information you need to create your own home water garden! Over 490 color photographs and illustrations provide inspiration and direction for constructing water garden structures Easy step-by-step sequences and instructions for pond foundations, moving-water features, pond cleaning, troubleshooting, and more Practical advice on every consideration of planning your water gardensize, style, light, location, climate, slopes, materials, configuration, and more All types of home water gardens are covered, from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, and bog gardens Aquatic plants, fish, and other pond inhabitants are covered in depth, from koi, tench, and frogs to herons, dragonflies, and snails, plus which nuisance insects to be on the alert for Bridges and stepping-stones are included, with tools & materials lists and design instructions Find historical inspiration from Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Persia, China, Japan, and Europe with an overview of water gardens throughout history Beautifully illustrated with over 490 lush photographs, Garden Ponds, Fountains & Waterfalls for Your Home provides essential information on designing and installing all types of home water gardens, from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, and bog gardens.
15. Adventures in Eden: An Intimate Tour of the Private Gardens of Europe
Author: by Carolyn Mullet
English
332 pages
1604698462
A bucket list tour of Europe’s private gardens Acres of white-blooming garden rooms on the island of Mallorca. A seven-tiered wonder of stone, plants, and water above Germany’s Rhine River. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation in a quiet Scottish valley.
These sumptuous landscapes are just three of the fifty destinations you’ll visit on this exclusive tour of Europe’s most beautiful private gardens. From Belgium to Ireland, Scandinavia to Wales, Carolyn Mullet is your guide through intimate retreats normally off-limits to visitors.
Short profiles introduce the intriguing owners and rich histories of each garden and the land they inhabit. Among the featured gardens are works of eminent designers such as Tom Stuart-Smith, Andy Malengier, and Louis Benech. Whether you love exploring faraway places or creating your own landscape haven at home, Adventures in Eden is the ideal armchair getawayglimpses into personal garden artistry that are sure to spark inspiration.
16. Midwest Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition: Including South-Central Canada (Creative Homeowner) 46 Landscape Designs and Over 200 Plants & Flowers Best Suited to the Region, with Step-by-Step Instructions
Author: by Roger Holmes
Design Originals
English
224 pages
Discover inspiring ideas to make your Midwest home landscape more attractive and functional! 46 beautiful designs created by landscape professionals specifically for the MidwestOver 200 plants picked for your region, with detailed descriptions and all you need to know to plant & maintain themOver 470 photos and illustrations to help envision your resultsStep-by-step instructions for building structures like paths, ponds, walls, fences, arbors, and trellisesCreative solutions for installing front & back entries, foundation plantings, patios, steep slopes, and moreMidwest Home Landscaping, 3rd Edition shows you how to beautify common landscape situationsMidwest-style!
Inside, you’ll find a collection of inspiring ideas for making your home landscape more attractive and functional. The 46 featured designs were created by landscape professionals from the region and use more than 200 proven performersall plants that thrive in the Midwest and south-central Canada.
The book describes each plant in full detail, as well as how to install and care for them. Included are detailed instructions for projects such as walkways, borders, patios, ponds, and arbors, concise information for gardening techniques, and easy-to-follow plans.
